We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Palo Alto Networks WildFire based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."We were looking for the VPN feature and controlling the inflow and outflow of all the traffic within the site and across the sites. We are also using it for the VPN and VLANs."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the ability to work in proxy mode, which other solutions, such as Palo Alto cannot. There are some features that are better that come at no extra license or subscriptions cost, such as basic SD-WAN. The DLT is useful, other solutions have the same feature too, such as Palo Alto."
"The main reason why I purchased the particular unit was that it had good reviews and what other people were saying as far as its completeness and its leading capabilities in terms of endpoint security was very good."
"It increases security posture and is helpful for firewall reporting, intrusion protection, web filtering, and SD-WAN implementation."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"I like several features that this product has, such as antivirus and internet navigation inspection. It is also simple to use."
"It's super reliable. I don't think I've ever had a reliability issue with it."
"Our security improved from being able to put in rules and close off unwanted traffic."
"What I like best about this product are the support and the features."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Good identity fire walling, malware protection and application control features."
"Its stability and SD-WAN features are the most valuable."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"The most valuable features are SD-WAN, URL filtering, IPS, and virus scanning."
"The interface is very user-friendly and it is quite easy to use."
"The encryption and the security standards are valuable."
"I love the idea of Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It's more geared toward preventing malware. If someone's laptop or phone is malware-infected, the tool prevents it from uploading valuable corporate data outside the corporate network. That's what I love about Palo Alto Networks WildFire. It stops malware in its tracks."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is how it keeps up-to-date with viruses."
"It is stable and pretty much scalable."
"High availability with active-active and active-passive modes."
"Using WildFire has reduced the number of viruses and the amount of malware that comes into our system, which means that I don't have to rely on the end-users to identify it."
"The cloud-based services are a nice feature."
"The graphic user interface of Palo Alto is good and it's easy to configure."
"Remote access is excellent."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a firewall solution and once it's deployed, you can rest assured that your system is secure."
"One of the problems I was having was with user mapping, and it is an issue for which I have escalated tickets with Fortinet support."
"The reporting in Fortinet FortiGate could improve. Customers are having to purchase additional reporting components. When I have used the Sophos solution it is a complete solution, in Fortinet FortiGate you have to use additional tools to have the features needed."
"Some of the web policy reports could be improved."
"Difficult to add or define, and not that easy to configure and manage."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"At first glance, the interface for the device is very confusing."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The usability for the administrator's experience needs improvement. My system administrator has some questions about its overall connectivity and flexibility."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"The price could be better."
"I would give this product a rating of 9 out of 10 due to some slight issues of performance."
"Our main concern is that everything has to be synced with the WildFire Cloud and has to be checked through the subscription."
"There are certain changes that I was expecting in the previous version, and I hope that they are soon fixed. All of the problems that I have faced so far have been resolved."
"Palo Alto Networks WildFire should be more real-time in nature. The signature updates should happen in a minute or less than a minute to be a very good feature for the customer."
"The configuration should be made a little bit easier. I understand why it is as it is, but there should be a way to make it easier from the user side."
"The data analytical system for deployment needs to improve."
"The cost of this solution could still be improved, in particular, giving product discounts for charitable causes."
"The cost of the solution is excessively high."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 25th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is ranked 3rd in Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) with 58 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Palo Alto Networks WildFire is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks WildFire writes "Good technical support and provides automatic analysis that saves us time in filtering email". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and SonicWall NSa, whereas Palo Alto Networks WildFire is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Proofpoint Email Protection, Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Fortinet FortiSandbox and Check Point SandBlast Network.
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